In January 2014, the European Commission proposed a framework for its climate and energy policy up to 2030. It includes … targets for reducing greenhouse gases and using renewable energies, but no specific targets for increasing energy efficiency … late and too weak. In regard to renewable energy use, the Commission has proposed a goal to achieve a share of 27 percent …

For economic and energy policy, the energy costs of the German industrial sector are of great importance, especially … those of the highly energy intensive sectors. Yet, up-to-date information on such costs is unavailable. While the German …, the survey results are only available with a two-year time lag. Therefore, Öko-Institut and DIW Berlin developed an Energy …

, increase in sales of wood, energy out of wood, forest preservation or airport environmental education are analyzed as examples …

contained in Input-Output tables is desirable, yet without loss of the quantitative dimension. For the case of total energy … requirements an approach is presented, which allows a decomposition of total energy requirements by production layers and (final …) energy consuming sectors. Therefore, a mixed monetary-energetic Input-Output model and a partitioning procedure are used …